The Financial Times revealed a proposal President Donald Trump had reportedly floated to Chinese President Xi Jinping last week during the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, one that left onlookers floored at its implications.
“An indication of how mentally unstable Trump is, and how much he is Israel's message boy,” wrote Scottish writer and political commentator Grouse Beater, who manages a political commentary blog.
Citing “several people familiar with the U.S. assessment” of the U.S.-China summit, the Financial Times reported that Trump has suggested to Xi that the United States, China and Russia “co-operate against the International Criminal Court (ICC),” the only intergovernmental organization with the authority to prosecute individuals for certain crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity.
Given that a close ally of Trump’s, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, including “using starvation as a method of warfare,” several critics theorized that the alleged request was made at the behest of Netanyahu.
“Of course he did,” wrote Max Uechtritz, a former foreign correspondent and senior news executive, in a social media post Tuesday on X.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November of 2024 related to Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza in response to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.
As of Monday, Israel has killed at least 72,769 Gazans, the majority of them women, children and the elderly, per Gaza’s Health Ministry and an independent study from The Lancet, respectively. Actual death tolls, however, may be significantly higher, with exact counts difficult due to Israel still prohibiting international journalists from entering Gaza.
Of course he did https://t.co/IMbtAhob1y
— Max Uechtritz (@plesbilongmi) May 19, 2026